A Quote by Edward Norton

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
American - Actor
Born: August 18, 1969

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

Dave Winer

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

Helena Bonham Carter

The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

Doreen Valiente

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

Alex O'Loughlin

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Stephen Sondheim

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

Gillian Anderson

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

Ed Wood

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

Melissa Bank

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Joseph Bologna

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

Elena Ferrante

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Peter Greenaway

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

Edward Norton

I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.